Privacy Policy

Who this policy covers

This policy covers Avoid Me for iPhone and iPad (version 1.0.0 and later) and the free web version of Avoid Me that plays in a web browser. "We" means Edward Carreno, the developer of Avoid Me.

• The iPhone and iPad app shows ads from Google AdMob. To show them, it includes Google's advertising software, the Google Mobile Ads SDK, which collects some data from your device. This page explains what is collected, why, and the choices you have.
• The web version shows no ads and collects nothing.

What is collected, and by whom

By us: nothing from the game. Avoid Me has no sign-up, no contact form and no analytics of its own, and it never sends your scores, your progress or anything else about you to us. The game never gives us your name, email address, contacts, photos or precise location. From Google we receive only combined ad reports, such as how many ads were shown in each country, which cannot identify you. If you email us, we receive your email address and what you write, and use them only to answer you.

By Google, in the iPhone and iPad app. When the app loads or shows an ad, the Google Mobile Ads SDK may collect:

• your IP address, which Google uses to estimate your approximate location (such as your country or city);
• device and advertising identifiers. Apple's advertising identifier (IDFA) is used only if you allow tracking (see Tracking and privacy choices);
• ad and app interactions, such as which ads were shown, taps on ads and app launches;
• diagnostics, such as crash logs and performance data.

Google uses this data to show, measure and improve ads, to limit how often you see the same ad, and to detect and prevent fraud and abuse. Google is an independent third party: it decides how it uses this data under its own policies, not ours. To learn more, read How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services and the Google Privacy Policy.

We do not sell your personal information for money. Under some US state privacy laws, letting an advertising partner use device data for personalised ads can count as "selling" or "sharing" it. You can opt out at any time with Privacy choices (see Tracking and privacy choices).

Ads in the iPhone and iPad app

Ads only appear between runs, never while you play:

• An optional video on the game-over screen. WATCH AD · SECOND CHANCE lets you continue your run once you have watched a short video to the end, once per run. When no video is available, for example when you are offline, the Second Chance is free.
• A full-screen ad after some finished runs, shown behind a short AD BREAK screen: at most every 3rd run and at least 3 minutes apart, never during play and never in your first 5 runs.
• A small banner on the main menu only, never during play.

Ads are limited to content rated G (suitable for general audiences). Many ads carry Google's AdChoices icon or a “Why this ad?” link, which shows why you were shown that ad. Ads need an internet connection: offline they simply don't load, and the game plays the same.

Optional videos. Watching one is always your choice. Nothing plays unless you tap WATCH AD, and the reward is given only when the video finishes. A Second Chance only continues the run you are playing; nothing about it is sent to us.

Tracking and privacy choices

Apple's tracking prompt. The first time you open the app, Google's consent screen appears, followed by Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt asking whether Avoid Me may track your activity across other companies' apps and websites. If you allow it, Google may use your advertising identifier to show you more personalised ads. If you choose Ask App Not to Track, the identifier is not shared and you still see ads, just less personalised ones. The game plays exactly the same either way, and nothing in it depends on your answer. (If Allow Apps to Request to Track is switched off on your device, the prompt does not appear and the app does not track you.)

To change it later, open your device's Settings, then Privacy & Security › Tracking, and switch Avoid Me on or off. Switching off Allow Apps to Request to Track refuses tracking for every app at once.

Privacy choices in the game. Where the law requires it in your region, the game's Settings has a Privacy choices button:

• In the UK and Switzerland, Google's consent screen asks for your consent before your data is used for ads. Privacy choices lets you review or withdraw that consent at any time. If you do not consent, you may see fewer, non-personalised ads, or none.
• In US states with consumer privacy laws, Privacy choices is where you can opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information for targeted advertising (Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information).

The Google Privacy Policy explains how Google uses ad data and the other choices Google gives you.

What the game saves on your device

To remember your progress, Avoid Me keeps a small save in the app's own storage on your device. It never leaves your device and we cannot see it.

If your device backs up apps (for example with iCloud Backup), this save can be included in your own backup, under your own account. We never receive it. Deleting the app deletes the save.

Accounts and purchases

There are no accounts, logins or in-app purchases. Everything in the game is available from the start.

Internet and permissions

Avoid Me plays fully offline: everything the game needs is inside the app. When your device is online, the Google Mobile Ads SDK in the iPhone and iPad app connects to Google to load and measure ads; the game itself sends nothing to us. Avoid Me does not ask for access to your camera, microphone, location, contacts or photos. The only permission it asks for is Apple's tracking prompt described above.

Children

Avoid Me is a general-audience game, rated 4+ on the App Store. It is not directed at children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age where you live), and ads in the app are limited to content rated G. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and the game has no chat, no sign-up and no way to contact other players.

If you are a parent or guardian and have a question about your child's data, or think your child has sent us personal information (for example by email), contact us at the address below. We will answer, and delete anything your child sent us.

Report an ad

If you see an ad in Avoid Me that seems inappropriate, offensive or not right for a general audience, please tell us: in the app, open Settings and tap Report an ad, or email us. Include the game, when you saw the ad, what it showed and, if you can, a screenshot. We block reported ads in our Google AdMob account so they are not shown again. How to report an ad.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, for example in the UK, Switzerland or certain US states, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or receive a copy of your personal data, to object to or restrict how it is used, to withdraw your consent at any time, and to opt out of targeted advertising or of the "sale" or "sharing" of your data. In the UK and Switzerland, ads that use your data rely on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time in Privacy choices.

We hold no personal data about you from the game, so there is nothing of ours to access, correct, export or delete. Data collected for ads is held by Google; see the Google Privacy Policy for how to use your rights with Google. You can always write to us and we will help. You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority, such as the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK or the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) in Switzerland.

Keeping and deleting data

We keep no ad data. Google keeps the data its SDK collects for the periods described in the Google Privacy Policy. Your game save stays on your device until you delete the app, which deletes it. If you email us, we keep the conversation only as long as we need it to help you, and delete it sooner if you ask.

The App Store

Apple handles the download of Avoid Me under its own privacy policy. Apple may give developers anonymous, combined statistics, such as the number of downloads, and crash reports only if you chose to share them with app developers in your device settings. These cannot identify you and are not collected by the game.

Playing in a web browser

The free web version of Avoid Me shows no ads and collects nothing. It contains no advertising or analytics software, keeps the same small save in your browser's own storage on your device, and sends nothing to us or to Google. The site that hosts the page does so under its own privacy policy and may use its own cookies or visit statistics; the game itself adds none. Clearing your browser's data for that site deletes the web save.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of Avoid Me changes anything described here, we will update this page and the effective date at the top before that version is released.

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